Languages are not strangers to on another.

Language communicates the linguistic being of things. The clearest manifestation of this being, however, is language itself. The answer to the question ‘ What does language communicate?’ is therefore ‘All language communicates itself.

To read what was never written.’ Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind of reading, of runes and hieroglyphs, came into use.

The language of nature is comparable to a secret password that each sentry passes to the next in his own language, but the meaning of the password is the sentry’s language itself.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.